Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship

[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum TelegraphEssential reading History...

Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile.This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of ...

As a child growing up in Cambodia, Ronnie Yimsut played among the ruins of the Angkor Wat temples, surrounded by a close-knit community. As the Khm...

A revisionist account of interwar Europes largest Jewish community that upends histories of Jewish agency to rediscover reckonings with nationalism...

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitts most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Writt...

The future of Russia lies outside the country Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the countr...

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just b...

The troubles of the contemporary moment in history can be interpreted many different ways. Indeed, there has been no shortage of analysis and comme...

Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military for...

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic ...

This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out ...

This book offers a novel and interdisciplinary exploration of revolution as situated protest in Tunisia. Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh present exten...

Theres no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influen...

This study advances three interrelated claims for international human rights standards (IHRS). First, that post-colonial African societies are bure...

Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanatio...

A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolinis regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance   Looking at Italys na...

Bolsonarismo: The Global Origins and Future of Brazils Far Right documents the rise of the far-right alliance that emerged in Brazil in 2020 around...

Bolsonarismo: The Global Origins and Future of Brazils Far Right documents the rise of the far-right alliance that emerged in Brazil in 2020 around...

At least 70% of the worlds population now lives under an autocracy. There are more openly authoritarian states than ever, democratic regimes are ba...

At least 70% of the worlds population now lives under an autocracy. There are more openly authoritarian states than ever, democratic regimes are ba...

Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt's brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, became president of Egypt, his regim...

For decades scholars have pored over Hitlers autobiographical journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal overtones and arguab...

Global war on the human brain.   Throughout the world, mental capacity is declining, especially among young people, while depression rates are risi...

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday TelegraphWITH A NEW INTROD...

Winner of the 2023 Marc Raeff Book Prize; A 2023 REFORC Book Award Longlist TitleThis book highlights the main features and trends of Russian polit...